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NEW YORK – U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) announced earlier this month the addition of former Venezuelan Vice President and current Minister of Industry and National Production Tareck Zaidan El Aissami Maddah and his co-conspirator, Venezuelan businessman Samark Jose Lopez Bello, to its Most Wanted list for international narcotics trafficking Read more

Airplane sitting at the gate during sunset. (Photo: Ashim D’Silva) WASHINGTON – Airlines for America (A4A), the industry trade organization for the leading U.S. airlines, today issued the following statement on the Department of Transportation’s enforcement guidance concerning emotional support animals (ESAs): Airlines for America applauds the Department of Transportation’s enforcement guidance on emotional support animals (ESAs). The availability Read more

FBI agents arresting a suspected criminal in Hogan’s Alley. (Photo: FBI) DALLAS, TX—The FBI’s Dallas field office recently took part in Operation Independence Day, a month-long initiative that targeted sex traffickers and focused on the recovery of child victims. The FBI-led operation conducted during the month of July, included more than 400 law enforcement agencies. Read more

UNITED STATES — According to the Center for Disease Control, most adults favor requiring cigarette makers to lower nicotine levels in cigarettes. Eight out of 10 cigarette smokers believe this would help make cigarettes less addictive, according to a new report external icon published by the CDC in the American Journal of Preventative Medicine. Data Read more

CHICAGO — Recording artist Robert Sylvester Kelly, also known as “R. Kelly,” was arrested Thursday following his indictment on federal child pornography and obstruction charges. This indictment was announced by the following agency heads: U.S. Attorney John R. Lausch Jr., Northern District of Illinois; Special Agent in Charge James M. Gibbons, U.S. Immigration and Customs Read more

A reported 6.4 earthquake shook Southern California around 10:33 a.m. this morning. The quake was felt as far away as Las Vegas and Phoenix. According to USGS the earthquake was located near Searles Valley, Calif., northeast of Los Angeles at a depth of 8.7 km (5.4 miles).

Stranger Things happening at Baskin Robbins. (Photo: Baskin-Robbins) CANTON, Mass. — Baskin-Robbins is turning back time to the summer of 1985 in Hawkins, Indiana, as it brings Scoops Ahoy, the iconic ice cream shop from Stranger Things 3, to life. Visitors to the Burbank, California Baskin-Robbins store* will be transported to the Starcourt Mall, where the Read more

Ovation of the Seas arriving into Sydney to begin its first summer season of Australia and New Zealand itineraries. (Photo: Royal Caribbean International) SITKA, Alaska — The Coast Guard medevaced a woman from a cruise ship near Kake, Tuesday. A Coast Guard MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew from Air Station Sitka medevaced the woman who was Read more

‘The Rattler’ will branch off from the normal means of reporting in Mohave County and provide more video and photography-based multimedia stories. We plan to tell more “soft news” and human-interest stories rather than the crime and divisive political stories already covered by other sources.